White Sox Opening Day: 39 Degrees and Billion-Dollar Burgers

April 2, 2013 by Terry Keshner · 1 Comment

The Chicago White Sox opened the 2013 season on Monday by beating the Kansas City Royals, 1-0, at U. S. Cellular Field in front of an announced crowd of 39,000 people. In other words, there were one thousand people in the ballpark for every degree in the air. The high temperature in Chicago for the […]

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Humble Phil, Powerful Paul

April 27, 2012 by Terry Keshner · Leave a Comment

April 26, 2012 Philip Humber will always be associated with perfection. He just won’t always pitch that way. One start after throwing a perfect game against the Seattle Mariners, the White Sox right-hander plummeted back to reality Thursday night at Chicago’s U.S. Cellular Field, surrendering nine earned runs in a 10-3 loss to the Boston […]

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Economics of MLB Ballparks

February 18, 2012 by Frank P. Jozsa Jr. · 5 Comments

Several sources in the literature provide general and specific economic and financial data and basic sport statistics about each current and former Major League Baseball Ballpark (MLBB). These sources, as a group, include academic studies, articles in books, journals, magazines and newspapers, industry reports, and websites. With respect to MLBBs, authors focus on and analyze […]

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Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Good Fries

October 13, 2011 by Terry Keshner · 1 Comment

When the team you root for is left home during October the true frustration of a sub-par season begins to painfully nip at your toes and whisper profanities into your ear. That’s because watching good teams fight for the crown in the playoffs makes one realize just how bad – and uncontending – your team […]

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Crosstown Crisis?

June 23, 2011 by Terry Keshner · Leave a Comment

Not A Crowded House Normally the annual â€œCrosstown Classicâ€ series between Chicagoâ€™s Cubs and White Sox are an automatic sellout at U.S. Cellular Field as Sox fans love nothing more than to see their team whip up on the Cubs and also impugn the testosterone of all Cubs fans who dare to wander down to […]

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